UPDATE: TOWNSVILLE Crocodiles import Josh Pace has been suspended for three matches and fined by the club and will have to do community work after being charged for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The 30-year-old was found by police still in his training uniform after allegedly running his red sedan into a set of traffic lights near the corner of Fraire St and Charters Towers Road just past 10.30pm on Tuesday.

Pace has been charged with blowing 0.102 — more than twice the legal blood-alcohol limit — and is due to face Townsville Magistrates Court on March 19.

The first-year Crocs guard was not present at team training on Thursday or today.

The club announced today that Pace would be suspended for the next three games, would have to pay a fine to the club as well as doing some community work.

The player is already heavily involved in the club's community programs including visiting schools to teach kids skills and healthy lifestyle programs.

“It look like he’s crashed into a traffic light at Hermit Park and apparently the lights were pretty stuffed up,” the spokeswoman said.

“He was found at the scene on foot and he submitted to a blood-alcohol test”

The incident comes after a tough season for the NBL club, which has been battling on the court for wins and off the court for survival due to financial pressures.

The team is currently placed last on the NBL ladder and has been publicly pleading for more spectator support to avoid folding altogether.

Pace isn’t the first Crocs player charged with drink driving in recent years.

Former Croc, now Sydney King, Ben Allen recorded 0.094 per cent on February 9, 2011, driving home from a team dinner and kept his position with the team for another two seasons.

Michael Cedar returned a blood-alcohol content reading of 0.092 in May 2009, but the Townsville product’s future at the club was not questioned at the time because of his previously unblemished record and also went on to play another two seasons.

Import Galen Young was eventually released by the club in February 2008 after he pleaded guilty to driving with a high range reading.

Young was pulled over near a service station in Townsville’s CBD early in the morning, and returned a roadside reading of 0.168 — more than three times over the limit.

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